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Late Medieval Balkan and Asia Minor Population

Late Medieval Balkan and Asia Minor Population LATE MEDIEVAL BALKAN AND ASIA MINOR POPULATION BY JOSIAH C. RUSSELL (University of New Mexico) The research of Professor Barkan has presented very interesting data emanating from the archives of the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 1). Since so little has been known about this topic of population at the end of the Middle Ages the evidence is very valuable. It should permit the building up of a reasonably accurate picture of the demographic pattern of these very important regions, establishing a firm base for projecting estimates far back into the medieval period. These areas formed the core of the Byzantine Empire which for so long was a powerful force in the history of the Near East. The data present, as might be expected, a number of im- portant problems. In the early sixteenth century about z S Zo-34 the Ottoman Empire surveyed the hearths of the lands over which it ruled. It also laid upon some areas a tax upon Christians and Jews a head tax called the kharcidj which was normally paid by males over the age of twelve or fourteen. Both taxes were quite well known in the west at this time http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

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Brill
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© 1960 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4995
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1568-5209
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10.1163/156852060X00106
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LATE MEDIEVAL BALKAN AND ASIA MINOR POPULATION BY JOSIAH C. RUSSELL (University of New Mexico) The research of Professor Barkan has presented very interesting data emanating from the archives of the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 1). Since so little has been known about this topic of population at the end of the Middle Ages the evidence is very valuable. It should permit the building up of a reasonably accurate picture of the demographic pattern of these very important regions, establishing a firm base for projecting estimates far back into the medieval period. These areas formed the core of the Byzantine Empire which for so long was a powerful force in the history of the Near East. The data present, as might be expected, a number of im- portant problems. In the early sixteenth century about z S Zo-34 the Ottoman Empire surveyed the hearths of the lands over which it ruled. It also laid upon some areas a tax upon Christians and Jews a head tax called the kharcidj which was normally paid by males over the age of twelve or fourteen. Both taxes were quite well known in the west at this time

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1960

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